The push is on to make recreational marijuana use legal in Rhode Island.
The pro-legalization campaign says it's an economic imperative. The expectation is that a tax-revenue bonanza would help ameliorate the state's persistent budget …
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Rhode Island's reputation for high-quality restaurants is the result of the talent and work ethic of its chefs, many former students here at Johnson & Wales University, but many also trained at some of the world's best schools and eateries.
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Businesses know that investment is the prelude to future profitability. Without it, the enterprise withers and dies sooner or later.
Much of the resistance to Gov. Gina M. Raimondo's truck-tolling plan to invest in our roads and bridges is …
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Rhode Islanders will be debating the quality and effectiveness of the state's new tourism and economic-development initiative, "Rhode Island: Cooler and Warmer," for quite a while.
What should not take long to evaluate, however, is the …
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The recent announcement that Providence and the R.I. Public Transit Authority have backed away from plans to build a streetcar and instead create an "enhanced transit corridor" is indeed good news.
While the appeal of the streetcar project …
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This year's legislative session once again denied any operating funds for the Slater Technology Fund.
Just to review, Slater is a nonprofit that makes seed and early-stage investments in local companies. Since its creation 20 years ago, …
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Last year Providence Business News documented the shortfall in state adult job-training programs against the need – for example, in fiscal 2014, while the state averaged 47,468 unemployed people in the labor force, 1,045 received career services …
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It was predictable, that when the R.I. Department of Transportation announced it was creating eight new positions and reclassifying six others as part of a new organizational structure, there was much gnashing of teeth in the public sphere.
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The House's June 7 support for voter approval of any tax agreement negotiated between the Burrillville Town Council and developers of a proposed power plant is a blatant attempt to give local opponents of the project as much leverage as possible.
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Then-General Treasurer Gina M. Raimondo, then-Gov. Lincoln D. Chafee and the General Assembly did a difficult and courageous thing in 2011 when they faced the state's pension crisis head on.
Would that someone would step forward to tackle a …
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